Calendar of Eventshttp://www.nevadahumanities.org/calendar/2018-02?field_event_category_tid[12]=12&field_event_category_tid[13]=13&field_event_category_tid[17]=17&field_event_category_tid[14]=14
enReminiscences: Susanne Forestieri Friends, Family, Showgirls, and Colorhttp://www.nevadahumanities.org/calendar/reminiscences-susanne-forestieri-friends-family-showgirls-and-color
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>As part of its bimonthly exhibition series, Nevada Humanities presents the exhibition <em>Reminiscences: Susanne Forestieri Friends, Family, Showgirls, and Colo</em>r at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery.</p>
<p>Accomplished painter Susanne Forestieri focuses on the portrait, figurative, and abstract images, with subjects drawn from the artist's life, including showgirls, dancers, family, and the landscape. An influential Nevada artist, Forestieri's work and teaching have touched the community deeply with her expressive, diverse, and engaging works. </p></div></div></div>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:08:27 +0000maryt1298 at http://www.nevadahumanities.orgNephi Craig at Great Basin College: National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Keynote Speakerhttp://www.nevadahumanities.org/calendar/nephi-craig-great-basin-college-national-cowboy-poetry-gathering-keynote-speaker
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><span style="font-size:12.0pt">When White Mountain Apache/Navajo <strong>Nephi Craig</strong> enrolled in culinary school, there was nothing like "Native American Cuisine 101" in the curriculum. Upon graduating, Nephi launched the Native American Culinary Association, a network devoted to the development and preservation of Native American foodways. Nephi has now brought it all home to Whiteriver, Arizona, to establish a Western Apache Café and Learning Center to provide local opportunities for nutritional recovery, training and employment.</span></p></div></div></div>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 19:12:21 +0000maryt1314 at http://www.nevadahumanities.orgOrdinary People Doing Extraordinary Things: Keynote Speakers at the National Cowboy Poetry Gatheringhttp://www.nevadahumanities.org/calendar/ordinary-people-doing-extraordinary-things-keynote-speakers-national-cowboy-poetry
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Every year, the keynote address sets the tone for the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering, featuring speakers whose words and work embody the substance and creativity of living life in the American West. This year, the keynote will be by ordinary people doing extraordinary things, people whose grit, ingenuity and creativity are helping us all rethink how to "make it" in today's West. The keynote encourages every Gathering-goer to come together, listen and reflect on resonant themes in rural Western life.</span></p></div></div></div>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 18:48:01 +0000maryt1313 at http://www.nevadahumanities.orgNevada Humanities Informational Grant Meeting in Elkohttp://www.nevadahumanities.org/calendar/nevada-humanities-informational-grant-meeting-elko
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Nevada Humanities will hold free informational grant meetings, open to anyone interested in learning more about applying for project grant funding through Nevada Humanities, and about a new funding initiative offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The meetings will be held in Henderson, Las Vegas, Reno, and Elko.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:45:01 +0000maryt1291 at http://www.nevadahumanities.orgRick Parsons--Writing from Mars: Artist Receptionhttp://www.nevadahumanities.org/calendar/rick-parsons-writing-mars-artist-reception
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; color: rgb(73, 73, 73); font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif;">The Capital City Arts Initiative [CCAI] presents its exhibition, <span style="font-style: italic;">Writing from Mars</span>, by artist Rick Parsons at the CCAI Courthouse Gallery. CCAI will host a reception for the artist on Friday, February 2, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 30 Jan 2018 19:58:53 +0000maryt1310 at http://www.nevadahumanities.orgPop-Up Poetry featuring poets Autumn Widdoes and Paula Ramirezhttp://www.nevadahumanities.org/calendar/pop-poetry-featuring-poets-autumn-widdoes-and-paula-ramirez
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>Pop-Up Poetry is a featured event of the Las Vegas Poets Organization and Nevada Humanities. The public is cordially invited to attend this free poetry presentation by Autumn Widdoes and Paula Ramirez.</p>
<p>As part of the First Friday events in the Las Vegas 18b Arts District, Pop-Up Poetry is an ongoing series held from February through June at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery in Art Square, featuring different poets reading from their work.</p></div></div></div>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:35:46 +0000maryt1302 at http://www.nevadahumanities.orgIdentity Tapestry: an exhibition and accompanying programshttp://www.nevadahumanities.org/calendar/identity-tapestry-exhibition-and-accompanying-programs
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) invites you to their West Gallery on February 2, for the debut of "Identity Tapestry," a participatory installation by San Francisco artist Mary Corey March. The installation is intended as a day of connection and healing related to the October 1, 2017, mass shooting that rattled the Las Vegas Community.</p></div></div></div>Fri, 26 Jan 2018 21:28:20 +0000maryt1307 at http://www.nevadahumanities.orgJonathan Farber/Susan Kotler: Inside and Outside the Lines Exhibitionhttp://www.nevadahumanities.org/calendar/jonathan-farbersusan-kotler-inside-and-outside-lines-exhibition
<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"> <p>The Capital City Arts Initiative invites the public to view its exhibition, <em>Inside and Outside the Lines,</em> with artwork by artists Jonathan Farber and Susan Kotler at the Community Center's Sierra Room in Carson City. The exhibition is available to the public from November 13, 2017 — March 1, 2018.</p></div></div></div>Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:59:43 +0000maryt1292 at http://www.nevadahumanities.orgMountain Picassos: Basque Arborglyphs of the Great Basinhttp://www.nevadahumanities.org/calendar/mountain-picassos-basque-arborglyphs-great-basin-4
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<p>The Folklife Program of the Nevada Arts Council has collaborated with the Nevada Historical Society to present a traveling exhibition of the canvases of Basque tree carvings, or arborglyphs, from the collection of Jean and Phillip Earl, who have been documenting this folk art form of tree-trunk art for approximately 40 years. </p></div></div></div></div></div></div>Wed, 01 Feb 2017 21:01:06 +0000maryt1157 at http://www.nevadahumanities.orgReminiscences: Susanne Forestieri Friends, Family, Showgirls, and Colorhttp://www.nevadahumanities.org/calendar/reminiscences-susanne-forestieri-friends-family-showgirls-and-color-0
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<p>As part of its bimonthly exhibition series, Nevada Humanities presents the exhibition <em>Reminiscences: Susanne Forestieri Friends, Family, Showgirls, and Colo</em>r at the Nevada Humanities Program Gallery.</p></div></div></div></div></div></div>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 18:15:05 +0000maryt1299 at http://www.nevadahumanities.org